Media Landscape Media Claims

ESS 2012

Version 4.0 May 2015

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Content

1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 3

2. Newspapers per Country ..................................................................................................................... 4

a) Belgium (Flanders) ...................................................................................................................... 4

b) Belgium (Walloon) ...................................................................................................................... 4

c) Cyprus ......................................................................................................................................... 5

d) Czech Republic ............................................................................................................................ 5

e) Denmark ...................................................................................................................................... 6

f) Estonia ......................................................................................................................................... 6

g) Finland ......................................................................................................................................... 7

h) France .......................................................................................................................................... 7

i) Germany ...................................................................................................................................... 8

j) Hungary ....................................................................................................................................... 8

k) Ireland .......................................................................................................................................... 9

l) Israël .......................................................................................................................................... 10

m) Italy ........................................................................................................................................ 10

n) Kosovo....................................................................................................................................... 11

o) Lithuania .................................................................................................................................... 11

p) Norway ...................................................................................................................................... 12

q) Poland ........................................................................................................................................ 12

r) Portugal ..................................................................................................................................... 13

s) Russia ........................................................................................................................................ 13

t) Slovakia ..................................................................................................................................... 14

u) Slovenia ..................................................................................................................................... 14

v) Spain .......................................................................................................................................... 15

w) Sweden .................................................................................................................................. 15

x) Switzerland (French) ................................................................................................................. 16

y) Switzerland (German) ............................................................................................................... 16

z) Switzerland (Italian) .................................................................................................................. 17

aa) United Kingdom .................................................................................................................... 18

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1. Introduction The media landscape document gives a short description with information regarding to the

newspapers which were used for coding. Every country is asked to select two broadsheet (quality)

daily national newspapers, preferably one left- and one right-orientated. This document should

include:

Name of the newspaper

Left or right leaning/ political orientated

Average daily circulation (year/month)

Founded in the year

Headquarter (location)

Source (of information media landscape)

This document gives an overview of the selected newspapers in each country.

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2. Newspapers per Country

a) Belgium (Flanders)

Newspaper: De Morgen

Orientation: Left/Socialistic

daily circulation: Approximately 75.000 (2009)

Founded in the year: 1978

Headquarter: Asse

Source: http://www.demorgen.be/

Newspaper: Het Laatste Nieuws

Orientation: Right/Liberal/Anti-clerical/Flemish

daily circulation: Approximately 370.000 (2010)

Founded in the year: 1888

Headquarter: Asse

Source: http://www.hln.be/

Newspaper: De Standaard

Orientation: Center/Catholic/Flemish

daily circulation: Approximately 110.000 (2007)

Founded in the year: 1918

Headquarter: Groot-Bijgaarden

Source: ttp://www.standaard.be/

b) Belgium (Walloon)

Newspaper: L'Echo

Orientation: Centre-right (economic daily newspaper)

daily circulation: 18.736 (2/2012 )

Founded in the year: 22 mai 1881

Headquarter: Brussels

Source:

http://archives.lesoir.be/-l-8217-echo-fete-130-ans-d-8217-information-financiere_t-

20111117-01NRAD.html

http://cim.be/fr/media/presse/authentification/r%C3%A9sultats/r%C3%A9sultats-

public

Newspaper site: www.lecho.be/

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Newspaper: La Libre

Orientation: Centre Left

daily circulation: 51.538 (2/2012 )

Founded in the year: 1884

Headquarter: Brussels

Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Libre_Belgique

http://cim.be/fr/media/presse/authentification/r%C3%A9sultats/r%C3%A9sultats-

public

Note: there are two main "serious" newspapers in french-speaking Belgium, but none of them can be

classified as right-wing. So is possibly a "popular" one, but which is by no way a "serious" paper. So

the final decision, after discussion with Prof Jacquemain, was to choose La Libre as centre left

newspaper, and L'Echo, a financial newspaper as representative of the centre-right orientation

c) Cyprus

Name of the newspaper: Phileleftheros

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: Centre right

Average daily circulation (year/month): 26.000 (March 2012)

Founded in the year: 1951

Headquarter (location): Nicosia

Source (of information media landscape): http://www.philenews.com/

Name of the newspaper: Haravgi

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: Left

Average daily circulation (year/month): 9.000 (March 2012)

Founded in the year: 1956

Headquarter (location): Nicosia

Source (of information media landscape): http://www.haravgi.com.cy/

d) Czech Republic

Newspaper: Mladá fronta DNES

Orientation: Right wing conservatism, neoliberalism

Daily circulation: Approximately 205.000 (April – September 2012)

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Founded in the year: 1945

Headquarter: Prague

Source: http://data.idnes.cz/soubory/mafra_all/A121114_TVE_MFD_1223.PDF http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mlad%C3%A1_fronta_DNES

Newspaper: PRÁVO

Orientation: Left wing

Daily circulation: Approximately 112.000 (April - September 2012)

Founded in the year: 1991

Headquarter: Prague

Source: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A1vo_%28den%C3%ADk%29 http://www.abccr.cz/overovana-data/periodicky-tisk/ http://www.financninoviny.cz/zpravy/ceskym-denikum-ve-2-a-3-ctvrtleti-mezirocne-klesly-

prodeje/864031&id_seznam

e) Denmark

Newspaper: Berlingske

Orientation: Centre-right (conservative)

Daily circulation: Approximately 90,000 ( 2012)

Founded in the year: 1749

Headquarter: Copenhagen

Source: http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlingske

Newspaper: Politiken

Orientation: Centre-left (social liberal)

Daily circulation: Approximately 98.000 ( 2012).

Founded in the year: 1884

Headquarter: Copenhagen

Source: http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politiken

f) Estonia

Newspaper: Eesti Päevaleht (www.epl.ee)

Orientation: Liberal

daily circulation: 25 100 (August 2012) 6 times per week

Founded in the year: 1995

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Headquarter: Tallinn

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eesti_P%C3%A4evaleht

http://www.eall.ee/eall_liikmed.html (Retrieved on 3rd September 2012)

Newspaper: Postimees (www.postimees.ee)

Orientation: centrist-liberal

daily circulation: 53 400 (August 2012)

Founded in the year: 1886

Headquarter: Tallinn

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postimees

http://www.eall.ee/eall_liikmed.html (Retrieved on 3rd September 2012)

g) Finland

Name of the newspaper: Helsingin Sanomat

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: Neutral

Average daily circulation (year/month): 366 000 (2011), 415000 on Sundays, 905000

daily readers

Founded in the year: 1889

Headquarter (location): Helsinki

Source (of information media landscape): www.hs.fi,

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsingin_Sanomat

We are basing our media analysis on only one newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, because it is the only

national one (since the bankruptcy of Uusi Suomi in early 1990s). All other big newspapers are either

tabloids or local newspapers as shown in the figure below (this is from 2010, so the circulation

numbers are slightly higher than the more recent ones):

h) France

Newspaper: Libération

Orientation: Left leaning

daily circulation: Approximately 120.000 (December 2011)

Founded in the year: 1973

Headquarter: Paris

Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libération_(journal)

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Newspaper: Le Figaro

Orientation: Right wing (conservative)

daily circulation: Approximately 330.000 (December 2011)

Founded in the year: 1826

Headquarter: Paris

Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Figaro

i) Germany

Newspaper: Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ)

Orientation: liberal-left

daily circulation: ~ 432.000 (first quarter of 2012)

Founded in the year: 1945

Headquarter: München

Sources:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/

S%C3%BCddeutsche_Zeitung

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Tageszeitung#.C3.9Cberregionale_Tageszeitungen

Newspaper: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)

Orientation: liberal-conservative

daily circulation: ~354.000 (first quarter of 2012)

Founded in the year: 1949

Headquarter: Frankfurt am Main

Sources:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Frankfurter_Allgemeine_Zeitung

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Tageszeitung#.C3.9Cberregionale_Tageszeitungen

j) Hungary

Name of the newspaper: Népszabadság

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: left wing/liberal

Average daily circulation (year/month): 60.000 (Q1 2012)

Founded in the year: 1956

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Headquarter (location): Budapest

Source (of information media landscape): various sources,

http://index.hu/kultur/media/2012/05/22/csokkent_a_hvg_es_a_blikk_peldanyszama/,

http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9pszabads%C3%A1g

Name of the newspaper: Magyar Nemzet

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: centre-right /conservative

Average daily circulation (year/month): 43.000 (Q1 2012)

Founded in the year: 1938

Headquarter (location): Budapest

Source (of information media landscape): various sources,

http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyar_Nemzet,

http://index.hu/kultur/media/2012/05/22/csokkent_a_hvg_es_a_blikk_peldanyszama/

k) Ireland

Name of the newspaper: Irish Times

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: centre left, Social Liberal

Average daily circulation (year/month): 92,565 (January to June 2012)

Founded in the year: 1859

Headquarter (location): 24–28 Tara Street, Dublin

Source (of information media landscape):

http://www.ejc.net/media_landscape/article/ireland/ ;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irish_Times ; http://www.ilevel.ie/media-

blog/print/102405-irish-morning-newspaper-abc-circulations-jan-june-2012

Name of the newspaper: Irish independent

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: Neoliberal, Populist on social issues

Average daily circulation (year/month): 125,986 (January to June 2012)

Founded in the year: 1905

Headquarter (location): Talbot Street, Dublin

Source (of information media landscape):

http://www.ejc.net/media_landscape/article/ireland/ ;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irish_Independent ; http://www.ilevel.ie/media-

blog/print/102405-irish-morning-newspaper-abc-circulations-jan-june-2012

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l) Israël

Newspaper: Haarethz

Left wing liberal

Approximately 72.000 weekdays, 100,000 weekends (5.8%, January-June 2011)

1918

Tel Aviv

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaretz

Newspaper: Israel HaYom

Centre-right

Approximately 275,000 weekdays, 350,000 weekends (39.3, January-June 2011)

2007

Tel Aviv

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_HaYom

m) Italy

Newspaper: Corriere della Sera

Orientation: Centrist

daily circulation: Approximately 403.000 (December 2012)

Founded in the year: 1876

Headquarter: Milano

Source: http://www.primaonline.it/2013/02/08/114106/quotidiani-dicembre-2012/

Newspaper: La Repubblica

Orientation: Left wing liberal

daily circulation: Approximately 383.000 (December 2012)

Founded in the year: 1976

Headquarter: Roma

Source: http://www.primaonline.it/2013/02/08/114106/quotidiani-dicembre-2012/

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n) Kosovo

Name of the newspaper: Bota Sot

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: Supposedly supports the largest opposition

party LDK which claims to be right wing

Average daily circulation (year/month): Not published (assumed at around 13,000 daily)

Founded in the year: 1995

Headquarter (location): Zurich (Switzerland)

Source (of information media landscape): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bota_Sot

Name of the newspaper: Epoka e Re

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: Supposedly supports the largest party in

Kosovo which is in the Government right now (PDK)

Average daily circulation (year/month): Not published (assumed at around 10,000 daily)

Founded in the year: 1999

Headquarter (location): Prishtina

Source (of information media landscape): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoka_e_Re

Note: The parties do not clearly align themselves as right-wing or left-wing yet in Kosovo.

o) Lithuania

In general, there are three major daily national newspapers in Lithuania: Lietuvos rytas, Respublika

and Lietuvos žinios. We decided to code the first two since they have the largest circulation and

readership (see www.visasverslas.lt/portal/categories/11/1/0/1/article/7548/marketingo-

specialistai-uz-leidiniu-tirazo-audita). Moreover, Lietuvos rytas and Lietuvos žinios are basically

similar in their ideological/political orientation and Respublika is a bit different from the other two in

this respect.

Newspaper: Lietuvos rytas (www.lrytas.lt)

Orientation: Right liberal

Daily circulation: Approximately 45.000 (2010)

Founded in the year: 1990

Headquarter: Vilnius

Source: http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lietuvos_rytas

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Newspaper: Respublika (www.respublika.lt)

Orientation: Right conservative

Daily circulation: Approximately 24.000 (2010)

Founded in the year: 1989

Headquarter: Vilnius

Source: http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respublika_(dienraštis)

p) Norway

Newspaper: Aftenposten

Orientation: Liberal Conservative

Daily circulation: 235 795 (2011)

Founded in the year: 1860

Headquarter: Oslo

Source: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftenposten#Morgenutgaven_Aftenposten

Newspaper: Dagsavisen

Orientation: Left/labour

Daily circulation: 24 524 (2011)

Founded in the year: 1884

Headquarter: Oslo

Source: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagsavisen

q) Poland

Newspaper: Gazeta Wyborcza

Orientation: Centre-left leaning

Daily circulation: 306 thousand (2011)

Founded in the year: 1989

Headquarter: Warsaw

Source: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazeta_Wyborcza,

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziennik_(prasa)

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Newspaper: Rzeczpospolita

Orientation: right leaning

Daily circulation: 141 thousand (2011)

Founded in the year: 1920-1932, 1st reissue 1944-1950, 2nd reissue 1982; (till 1989

Rzeczpospolita was a governmental and since that time RZ becomes independent

newspaper)

Headquarter: Warsaw

Source: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzeczpospolita_(gazeta),

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziennik_(prasa)

r) Portugal

Newspaper: Público

Orientation: Quality daily newspaper - Centre

Daily circulation: 33.159 (2011)

Founded in the year: 1989

Headquarter: Lisbon

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%BAblico_(Portugal)

Newspaper: Correio da Manhã

Orientation: Tabloid daily newspaper

Daily circulation: 125.342 (2011) - the most read newspaper in Portugal

Founded in the year: 1979

Headquarter: Lisbon

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correio_da_manha

s) Russia

Name of the newspaper: Nezavisimaya gazeta

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: right leaning (government newspaper, support

status quo, no reforms, strong government power, limited democracy vs. centralized

power)

Average daily circulation (year/month): 57 thousand a day

Founded in the year: 1990

Headquarter (location): Moscow, Russia

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Source (of information media landscape): http://www.ng.ru/,

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/независимая газета

Name of the newspaper: Rossiyskaya gazeta

Left or right leaning/ political orientated: left leaning (but in Russian context it mean

support free market/ democracy/ pro-Western)

Average daily circulation (year/month): 185 thousand a day

Founded in the year: 1990

Headquarter (location): Moscow, Russia

Source (of information media landscape): http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Российская

газета

t) Slovakia

Name of the newspaper: SME

Right orientated

Average daily circulation 63 000 (2012/1-7)

Founded in the year 1993

Headquarter : Bratislava

Source: http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C3%ADk_SME

Name of the newspaper: PRAVDA

Left orientated

Average daily circulation 70 000 (2012/1-7)

Founded in the year 1920

Headquarter : Bratislava

Source: http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda_(slovensk%C3%BD_denn%C3%ADk)

u) Slovenia

Name of the newspaper: Delo

Orientation: center (center – left)

Daily circulation: 59.513 copys

Founded: in 1959

Headquarters: Ljubljana

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Source: dd.delo.si

Name of the newspaper: Dnevnik

Orientation: center (center – left)

Daily circulation: 44.193 copys

Founded: in 1951

Headquarters: Ljubljana

Source: druzba.dnevnik.si

v) Spain

Name of the newspaper: ABC

Orientation: Right

Daily circulation: Approximately 314.271

Founded: 1903

Headquarters: Madrid

Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_%28peri%C3%B3dico%29

Name of the newspaper: El País

Orientation: Left

Daily circulation: 473.407

Founded: 1976

Headquarters: Madrid

Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Pa%C3%ADs

w) Sweden

Newspaper: Dagens nyheter (DN)

Orientation: Liberal

Daily circulation: Approximately 285.700 (2011)

Founded in the year: 1864

Headquarter: Stockholm

Source: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagens_Nyheter

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Newspaper: Svenska dagbladet

Orientation: Conservative

Daily circulation: Approximately 185.600 (2011)

Founded in the year: 1884

Headquarter: Stockholm

Source: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svenska_Dagbladet

x) Switzerland (French)

For media claims recording in Switzerland, we decided to include a total of 5 newspapers. We opt for

two (politically) different newspapers for the German- and French-speaking media landscape. As the

Italian speaking population of Switzerland represents only 5% of the total population we restrict

ourselves to one Swiss newspaper in Italian.

Name of the newspaper: Le Matin

Orientation :Centre

Daily circulation: 57’107

Founded: 1984

Headquarters: Lausanne

Source: http://www.wemf.ch/pdf/de/auflagen/2011Bulletinkomplett_d.pdf ,

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medien_in_der_Schweiz ,

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Matin_(Schweiz)

Name of the newspaper: Le Temps

Centre

42’433

1998

Genf

- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Temps_(Schweiz),

http://www.wemf.ch/pdf/de/auflagen/2011Bulletinkomplett_d.pdf ,

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medien_in_der_Schweiz ,

y) Switzerland (German)

For media claims recording in Switzerland, we decided to include a total of 5 newspapers. We opt for

two (politically) different newspapers for the German- and French-speaking media landscape. As the

Italian speaking population of Switzerland represents only 5% of the total population we restrict

ourselves to one Swiss newspaper in Italian.

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Name of the newspaper: Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)

Political orientation: right wing liberal, in favor of liberal economic policy reforms and

cuts in public expenditures and interventions, conforms to right wing of the FDP (liberal

party) and moderate SVP (people’s party)

Average Daily Circulation: approximately 132’670

Founding year: 1780

Zürich

Sources: http://www.wemf.ch/pdf/de/auflagen/2011Bulletinkomplett_d.pdf ,

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medien_in_der_Schweiz, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZZ

Name of the newspaper: Blick

Centre: equal political distance to both sides, moderate or without clear stance

208'360

1959

Zürich

http://www.wemf.ch/pdf/de/auflagen/2011Bulletinkomplett_d.pdf ,

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medien_in_der_Schweiz ,

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blick_(Zeitung)

z) Switzerland (Italian)

For media claims recording in Switzerland, we decided to include a total of 5 newspapers. We opt for

two (politically) different newspapers for the German- and French-speaking media landscape. As the

Italian speaking population of Switzerland represents only 5% of the total population we restrict

ourselves to one Swiss newspaper in Italian.

Name of the newspaper: Corriere del Ticino

Political orientation: Right wing liberal

Average Daily Circulation: 36'274

Founding year: 1891

Lugano

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corriere_del_Ticino,

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medien_in_der_Schweiz,

http://www.wemf.ch/pdf/de/auflagen/2011Bulletinkomplett_d.pdf ,

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aa) United Kingdom

Name of the newspaper: The Times

Political orientation: Centre-right

Average daily circulation: 400, 120 (June 2012)

Founded: 1785

Headquarter: London

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_times

Name of the newspaper: The Guardian

Political orientation: Left wing liberal

Average daily circulation: 215, 988 (Feb 2012)

Founded: 1821

Location: London

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_guardian